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TITLE:
The Dark Room, 5370 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

CALL NUMBER:
HABS CAL,19-LOSAN,33-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 1   (4 x 5 in.)
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1933.

CREATOR:
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HABS CA-2024

Significance: The facade of this camera shop is a piece of architectural sculpture which functions as a three-dimensional advertisement for the services and products it houses. Buildings of this type were built throughout the U.S. They have always been popularly associated with Southern California, and have figured prominently in the literature of Los Angeles. This is one of the best of the surviving examples.

SUBJECTS:
CALIFORNIA--Los Angeles County--Los Angeles

COLLECTION:
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ca0220

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s): 
1. Marvin Rand, Photographer 1972-77 DETAIL: ENTRANCE

CONTROL #:
CA0220

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